Jbr

Seen him on bain’s this weekend, new kit is lit 🔥

This weekend there was LOTS of security on lion’s head/signal hill, but ******* there on the n1. Priorities

Serviced your pedals yet ? I find creaking noise are usually headset or pedals. As Phil Gaimon once said, it’s never your bottom bracket edit: if you think noise depends on the tension in your thru axle, you should look at your wheel bearings/freehub body. The axle doesn’t move, but i’ve had bikes before where the freehub wouldn’t spin once the axle was tight, maybe grease your endcaps ?

Thanks I'll have a look. I started training more on my road bike recently, but got very frustrated as I kept having 1 to 5 secs drops which affected my average lap power a lot resulting in sometimes over doing some of the reps and then being toast before the end of my workouts... Been training on the gravel bike to finish the holiday block because of that, as the Quarq I've got on there never EVER drops.

I have, driving through DuNoon though, not there. Still can make the difference between the criminals and the people just living there. I'm convinced it's just a couple of criminals (a handful at best) terrifying the entire CT cycling community. Which is also why I think it would be a very simple problem to solve if the authorities gave half a f*k

tried the amazon bridge detour this morning. 38 mins from blaauwberg road to the bottom of kloof, not too bad in terms of time, but lots of people walking on the interchange, then on the road in maitland, salt river and woodstock. Didn't feel much safer, and there's tons of robots, all of them red this morning, don't like to stop and be stationnary when I already don't feel safe. Then on the way back we took the n1 (we were with glock-man 😅), it was dodgy AF, never seen so many people walking along the n1, I would have definitely turned around if I was alone. Situation isn't evolving there, at least not the right way (seems to be getting worse). Gonna be driving again to town sunday as I have 20mins efforts, then I'll just train on Tikkie, it's just not worth it.

*** time to be a cyclist or to fly a plane 😕

we drove past on the way down, and tagged along on a huge group on the way back today, my first time there in 3 weeks. Sad... I've got to go through there saturday sunday next week. I'm actually really hoping something happens, someone braver and angrier than me goes trap them and moer them would be nice, since authorities aren't going to do ******* about it

So we're going with a car following us, we'll jump in the car just for that section... The things those thugs force us to do...

drove past today, every time I drove past recently there was people sitting under one of the sides of the bridge... I've got a session tomorrow to do there... not sure if we'll ride or drive...

Must have been coming from vissershoek to dairy shed. Unacceptable.

so there's now several attacks per day, with the same group being attacked twice, both ways. How can the city/saps hide behind the fact that's there's shifts ? Is it so hard to put two cops in lycra and send them to do that route every day and catch these ******* in the act ?

Sorry man, were you with Gareth or is this a separate incident ? Hope you're healing alright both physically and mentally.

nothing is going to change until one of the thieves gets shot, I hope this happens sooner rather than later. Unfortunately we could see recently that a cyclist losing his life because of road damage doesn't get relevant authorities to fix the issue very quickly, so if they cause some drama on the highway we'll be the only ones sad about it. I really really hope we get some kind of access back to town quickly, in my opinion doing a 1000 detours is not a solution, because you'll still have to ride through woodstock, which is notorious for being a place where cyclists get smashed with bricks (also it's quite a big detour, if I do go through the interchange towards voetreker I might as well go ride constantia side).

Hope you find it (also hope you don't get a lecture)

we tried yesterday morning, they did not let us through without a permit

we tried the harbour this morning, no luck 🤣

I'll go apply for the permits monday, my 1st day of holidays, hopefully this time I don't have to come back with more paperwork. Then for collection I must come with my wife to collect her permit right ?

Your opinion, not necessarily the right one. I don’t and won’t carry, but I definitely won’t cry the day one of these robbers get shot

Was he riding in a yellow kit ?

Sad day for the other leaders

We rode on the N1 on saturday because I had a session I can only do on kloof/glen, on the way down we rode with the flow of cars, on the middle/right side of the left lane, so that it's not so easy for these oxygen thieves to surprise us from behind the bushes, on the way back, going under the bridge it was dodge AF, there was at least 5 guys behind the pillar/rail, and one guy that went to cross right in front of us. Same thing we just went full gas there (50kph on the way there, 43 on the way back 🥵), quite in the middle of the left lane. Not great for our reputation towards the motorists, but only way to keep relatively safe. If I understand correctly most of those incidents are on the road on top of that bridge, leading to woodstock right ? My wife told me the city was going to take over management of the trains network over the state, isn't there a bit of hope there ?

next year 99er will be two loops of the parderberg circuit

Any updates ? Wondering if it's worth doing all the nonsense process to get the permits for the fam to ride there during the summer holidays

you can also cancel one item from a multi item order. I did exactly that (buyers remorse) once, cancelled the new sram red brakes from an order